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ETA2: we do use inches/miles in poetic ways ("he was lost in thought/miles away" or "his lips were a bare inch away").

Because publishing houses will not continue printing paper books if libraries are their only customers.

Publishers make a ton of money from selling paper books (and ebooks) to libraries. Public libraries, university libraries, K-12 school libraries...every major publisher has school and library marketing teams, school and library sales teams, school and library imprints...Libraries are a HUGE chunk of the market. Especially for children's literature, where, historically, school and library purchases accounted for around 75% of a book's earnings.

So the concerted attacks on books in schools and libraries since 2021 has had a devastating effect. Authors who used to make a living writing books that schools and libraries bought in large quantities (and then would go visit those schools and libraries to talk about books with kids) have seen their income plummet. Publishers have shuttered entire school and library imprints—one of which was 65 years old and had won every major award for children's literature multiple times. (Full disclosure they published MY award winning children's books!)

AND did you know right now the house is considering HR2616, which would ban books that have any mention of "gender ideology" from schools? That means any book written by or including trans people.

"I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine fucking de Bourgh"

mansfield park:

"I was quiet, but I was not fucking blind"

sense and sensibility:

"I will be fucking calm"

"Elinor went to her room, where she was free to think and be fucking wretched"

persuasion:

"And who the fuck is Admiral Croft?"

"Can we fucking retrench?"

"I am not fond of the idea of my fucking shrubberies being always approachable"

northanger abbey:

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be stupid as fuck"

lady susan:

"My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to fucking die"

emma:

"Badly fucking done, Emma!"

It seems to me that a great deal of time is thrown away in pursuit of attachments that can never come to anything. Such as Mr. Ryder.